NEW PRODUCTS Design & Development Tools edited by jimharrison and christinanickolas See our online archive at http://electronicproducts.com/software Fast probe aids μP debug Said to be the fastest and smartest debug probe ever built, the Green Hills Probe V3 has download speeds in excess of 10 Mbytes/s and is used with the MULTI integrated development environment or a fully scriptable Web 2.0 interface. The device is aimed at debugging a wide range of CPUs. The probe also features Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 High Speed, and a flexible electrical interface. The device uses hand-placed custom logic and a highly optimized software path to attain its speed. ($3,000 to $3,500—available now.) Green Hills Software Santa Barbara, CA Information 805-965-6044 http://www.ghs.com modeling features. (From $6,495 per seat—available now.) Tanner EDA, Monrovia, CA Dan Hamon 626-4719781 daniel.hamon@tanner.com http://www.tannereda.com delivery 9 weeks after spec approval.) Diamond Systems Mountain View, CA Sales 650-810-2500 sales@diamondsystems.com http://www.diamondsystems.com Linux version aids media convergence MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 5.0 features advanced native Linux real-time capabilities. The operating system’s real-time response improves voice quality, streaming video adaptation, and network bandwidth for media convergence applications. The software’s response times are in the 5-μs range. The OS offers two configurations: one based on the standard glibc library, the other on the size-conscious uClibc library. Building with uClibc enables a total footprint under 3 Mbytes—a 75% reduction compared with traditional embedded Linux platforms. (Contact company for pricing—available now.) MontaVista Software Santa Clara, CA Sales 408-572-8000 sales@mvista.com http://www.mvista.com USB reference design copies files w/o PC The VF2F2 reference design, based around the VNC1L-1A USB host/device controller IC, demonstrates how few components and little power is needed to make a simple USB massstorage copier that can copy files without a PC. The design handles all the directory creation and file operations by itself. The design is battery operated and needs only about 25 to 30 mA, plus whatever power is required by the USB port devices. A 3-Mbyte file takes only about 6 s to copy from the camera to a memory stick. A module built using this reference design can also be purchased for $35 each. (Reference design, free—available now.) Future Technology Devices International Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. Jim Kenney 503-547-0988 jim.kenney@ftdichip.com http://www.ftdichip.com Analog simulator cuts run time by 80% Offering fast simulations on singleprocessor, dual-core computers and fast run times on two-processor, dualcore machines, the T-Spice simulator for analog and mixedsignal chip designs integrates schematic capture and waveform viewing. The simulator automatically breaks down the workload into small tasks and distributes these tasks to multiple threads for processing. The tool parallelizes the model evaluations during the NewtonRaphson iterations using Intel’s Thread Building Blocks (TBB) technology. T-Spice also uses a direct Level-3 BLAS sparse linear solver from Intel for the linear system solution. It can read HSPICE and P-Spice netlist formats directly and includes a Simulation Manager and device- Custom SBC design reduces time to market “ETX To Go” baseboard customization provides fast, low-risk, turnkey ETX computer-on-module-based single-board-computer solutions. It gives OEMs the flexibility of a custom baseboard with a wide range of proven-in-the-field I/O logic that significantly lowers technical risk. Designers may choose for their baseboard design from over 30 I/O blocks, including analog I/O, digital I/O, counter/timers, FPGAs, autocalibration, relay outputs, optical isolation, dc/dc power conversion, batterybackup and charger circuits, RS-232/422/485 serial ports, 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet, CANbus, GPS, Wireless communications, USB 1.1and 2.0, and FireWire. Any type of processor can be used via the ETX plug-inmodule. (From $15,000—prototype EDA software improves productivity, saves time Suited for easy communication and reuse for RF and microwave component and subsystem designers, Genesys 2007 EDA software features LiveReport, a new design capability that streamlines the user interface and automates the documentation process. The software captures living views of schematics, layouts, graphs, and equations onto a single interactive document. The software includes 17 new nonlinear device models, improved phase noise in the harmonic balance simulator, and an enhancement to Spectra- For Specs and Samples http://epinfo.us 160 ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS http://electronicproducts.com JUNE 2007

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